Label

A sticker is usually a printed product made ​​of paper or plastic, which printed on one side, is equipped on the other side with a self- adhesive surface.

In the usual form, stickers particularly popular with children enjoy. Labels can also be striking advertising agent. There are also stickers with political motives: they are often sold at punk concerts. Even the distinguishing sign of a motor vehicle, if it is not part of the registration plate, usually made ​​in the form of a sticker. Often labels are designed in the form of a sticker. In contrast to the rubber adhesive surface must not be wetted. Sticker exist in very different forms.

Adhesive label

An adhesive label in a variety of materials acts as an information carrier or media. Depending on the application, the composition of the adhesive label is different. The adhesive label consists of the upper, the adhesive, a silicone layer and the original condition of the self-adhesive label the substrate usually paper or cardboard on which it is available.

Uses for adhesive labels are price tags and bar codes on goods, staples and book labels in school for the identification of the owner, labels on packaging made of glass or metal ( in the commercial and private sectors ), notepad for the identification of all possible objects or decoration thereof.

Materials for adhesive labels can be:

• Paper ( uncoated, matte coated, glossy coated ( simple machines underscore), cast coated )
• Plastic (PE, PP, PVC, PET)
• Special materials ( Tyvek ), polyolefins

Possibilities of equipping with information:

• Direct Thermal ( heat-sensitive layer in the material which changes color when heated. Usually black but also red, blue and black / red and blue / red available)
• The thermal transfer ( color material is transferred by heat to the surface )

Depending on the configuration, the color material may be "burned " into the surface. Printing for labels are: digital printing, offset printing, screen printing, flexography, letterpress.

The following adhesive types are defined: rubber / resin, synthetic rubber, silicone / rubber / resin and acrylate. For adhesive labels mainly synthetic rubber and acrylate adhesives are used.

Stickers

The term Sticker (of English stickers stickers = ) denotes a small sticker on the front thereof an emblem in the form of symbols and / or artwork painted, drawn or printed.

From time to time use among children sticker albums, scrapbooks for stickers analogous to the poetry albums very popular.

In the Streetartszene Sticker is also regarded as a variant of graffiti, is carried out at the place with the spray bottle with stickers. These are glued as possible throughout the city, at conspicuous places as possible. Sometimes even large posters are stuck, see Sticker Art.

Regional designations

A Bapperl is in the narrow sense, a sticker, and possibly also a badge. The term is a dialect expression from the Bavarian region and is sometimes also used in the computer field for graphical icons that are used in the form of a pictogram to apply a label function. It is related in the signet used and understood as a graphical counterpart to the logogram. Bapperl comes from the commonly used verb " paperboard " "stick" for.

Similarly, exists in Austria, the term Pickerl who comes " pick " from the colloquial word. It is used for all kinds of stickers and labels, but it is in particular the inspection sticker and the vignette.

Silhouette Stickers

A silhouette sticker is a special type of stickers, mostly kept plain show a striking silhouette of an animal, emblem, country or an island ( eg Sylt).